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When Federal Deception becomes Reality - America is witnessing pathological classism where the rich are literally conquering everyone else. One mistake that we, the people, have made for decades has been staying riveted to “breaking news.” We tend to miss the real news that is pre-empted, or in other words, not reported. The only American news is this - the current administration and their corporate backers are dismantling America.(1245 views)

November 29, 2005

Cheney accused on prisoner abuse - Asked by the BBC's Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: "It's an interesting question. Certainly it is a domestic crime to advocate terror," he added. "And I would suspect, for whatever it's worth, it's an international crime as well." (1076 views)

Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress - It may be time for another galvanizing "Pearl Harbor-type event"; one that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American democracy. With Congress out of the picture, the path is clear for one man rule; the final jewel in the neocon crown.(1081 views)

Iron Fisted America - Every branch of government and ninety nine percent of the media operates in the corporate interest—not in the public interest, as we all too willingly assume. America is not even close to resembling a democracy, as the national myth proclaims—it is a corporate oligarchy.(922 views)

Abramoff used DeLay to fund anti-intifada militia - More than $140,000 of the foundation's funds... was used to purchase sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, camouflage suits, thermal imagers and other materiel which Abramoff's foundation called "security" equipment.(1111 views)

DeLay's Corporate Defenders - "DeLay is so addicted to corporate money that he is now accepting it to fight charges that he laundered it..."(1108 views)

The Devil & Dick Cheney - Wish I made a sweet deal with the devil. What an opportunity for me. The only reason I couldn't...is because I'm not Dick Cheney.(1353 views)

November 25, 2005

Ex-Fema boss starts disaster firm - The man who lost his job as head of the US response to Hurricane Katrina has started up a new firm - dealing with disaster readiness. (1311 views)

Murtha and the Demented Neocon Political Constellation - Murtha had no problem with the criminal enterprise of Iran-Contra—pulled off by the same criminals now in control of the White House and the Pentagon—and supported the illegal invasion of Iraq (100,000 Iraqi "soldiers" killed and 113,000 civilians slaughtered, according to the Red Crescent Society of Jordan). Murtha supported the intentional destruction of municipal water systems, waste material treatment and sewage disposal systems throughout Iraq. It can be assumed Murtha supported the violation of the Geneva Conventions and the laws of armed conflict, resulting in war crimes and crimes against humanity. (1085 views)

November 24, 2005

Michael Moore Owns Halliburton Stock - "I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed. He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11." (1028 views)

FBI turns to UC Berkeley for help softening its image - This is not the first time a government agency has come to UC Berkeley looking for help with recruitment. The Central Intelligence Agency participated in a similar program on campus last fall. It was not well publicized.(1225 views)

November 22, 2005

Xâ€™ing Out Cheney: Sounds Good to Me - ...a mere X on Cheney’s face is hardly recompense for Cheney’s long and sordid career as a war criminal and scourge of humanity. I’ll feel better when he’s in an orange jumpsuit.(1116 views)

Torture Under the Philosophical Guidance of Cheney - "There’s no question in my mind where the philosophical guidance and the flexibility in order to do so originated—in the vice president of the United States’ office. His implementer in this case was Donald Rumsfeld and the defense department..."(1173 views)

November 21, 2005

The Congressional Millionaires Club - The result of having too many wealthy people in office is having calamitous impacts on America’s working class families -- the backbone of our society. It has resulted in the breakdown of the family unit. Wealthy people are likely to look out for their own financial interests rather than the welfare of society, especially the poor. This form of government excludes the vast majority of the citizenry from the process and leaves them utterly without representation. It leaves them alone and vulnerable to predation by the rich.(1569 views)

November 20, 2005

Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle Has Friends in Low Places - Richard Perle, former top US "defense" advisor, unflinching advocate of Ahmad Chalabi, key member of the Project for a New American Century, and top 'Israeli-first' propagandist, may find himself back in the limelight, as his associate, Conrad Black, defends against multi-million dollar fraud charges.(1514 views)

Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise - The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation.
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The CIA's Secret Budget - How big is the intelligence budget? Usually we don't know because it's classified. Except this year we do know—it's $44 billion.(1082 views)

Germ Warfare: The Second Front of Scooter Libby, Judy Miller and Dick Cheney - In mid-2002, as they struggled desperately to sell the war, these key players in "Plamegate" were engaged in full-out offensive aimed at convincing Americans that the country faced an imminent threat of a smallpox attack. To underscore this "threat," Libby began fanatically pressing to have the entire US population preemptively vaccinated against smallpox (which was declared eradicated in 1980). The proposal was immediately met with opposition from public health experts, including those at the Department of Health and Human Services. They warned Libby that the vaccine could injure, even kill people and that a universal vaccination could in and of itself spark a public health crisis in the US.(1530 views)

Dick Cheney: War Profiteer - Cheney has pursued a political and corporate career to make himself very rich and powerful. He is the personification of a war profiteer who slid through the revolving door connecting the public and private sectors of the defense establishment on two occasions in a career that has served his relentless quest for power and profits.(1963 views)

Documents Show Nixon Deception on Cambodia - Even after Richard Nixon's secret war in Cambodia became known, the president persisted in deception. "Publicly, we say one thing," he told aides. "Actually, we do another." (1540 views)

Reagan to Sparta: 25 Years of Camouflage Conservatism - No more liberal than their shareholders' bottom line, Hollywood and the media are the Olsen twins of hacksaw capitalism with a human face. And the corporate workplace, on which most of us depend and whose language many of us are forced to speak, does daily calisthenics to the tune of Mussolini.(988 views)

Prominent Conservative Leader: Government in Hands of Psychopaths - Former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts expressed his dire warning that the US government has fallen into the hands of psychopaths and that the Neo-Cons in the Bush administration may be set to stage another terror attack in the US as part of a black operation to demolish growing dissent and coerce the public to rally behind the government once again.(1347 views)

Lobbyist Sought $9 Million to Set Bush Meeting - The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents. The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with President Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Mr. Abramoff made the offer.(1097 views)

November 10, 2005

GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline - A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."(1483 views)

November 9, 2005

Ambassador de Sade - Bush rewarded one of his loyalists with the ambassadorship to Italy -- despite his past as the founder of an cult-like teen rehab clinic. (1013 views)

Adventures of Jack Abramoff -- an ugly story - The players and politicians who are so desperately distancing themselves from Abramoff would prefer that we think of him as some small-time hustler, a fringe sleazeball who crawled out of the shadows. He wasn't. He was a big-league hustler and a mainstream sleazeball. And he was all theirs.(958 views)

Liberals and Faux Conservatives: Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin - Democrats and liberals seem incapable of understanding it does not matter if a Democrat or Republican is in office—there will be invasions, mass murder, corporate thievery, neolib foreign and economic policy, encroachments on the Constitution and liberty, and an ever-growing police state and police state outrages (the Democrat Clinton, after all, oversaw the incineration of babies at Waco).(1269 views)

November 3, 2005

Clueless Democrats and the Bush Casus Belli - If the Democrats were not simply playing partisan games, attempting to score points against Bush for self-serving political reasons, they would demand Bush’s immediate impeachment and move to indict him for high crimes and misdemeanors...(1125 views)

Bush Cheney's Scooter Libby Cover Up:The Fix Is In - When you control the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as well as the presiding judge US District Judge for the District of Columbia Reggie Walton, the Bush Cabal wins -- and the Bush Cabal coverup is complete.(1333 views)

Tender Mercenaries: DynCorp and Me - DynCorp employees in Bosnia, where the company plays a major policing role, have engaged in organized sex-slave trading with girls as young as 12, and DynCorp's Bosnia site supervisor was filmed raping a woman.(1262 views)

Unhappy Fitzmas - 60 years? Libby won't do 60 minutes...The lesson from all this for the American left?: stop putting all your political hopes on a Republican prosecutor appointed by John Ashcroft, get the crooked voting machine problem fixed...(1173 views)

Bushspeak: Dark and Garbled words - Following 9/11 everything from the giant street signs at doughnut shops to blinking signs on gas pumps insisted that Americans must never forget. There were even sweatshirts being sold in supermarkets and gardening centers. It was all one huge, confused, and dangerous reaction spurred on by an incompetent man at the top muttering about "with us or against us."(1280 views)

Malevolent Hegemony - The rulers of the United States rule over far more than you and me. They control and strongly influence many foreign rulers of dependent satellite countries. This extended rule makes our Presidents the powerful emperors of a vast Empire.(997 views)

Scooter is Indicted. Yawn. Now Will Somebody Please Change the Channel? - Imagine if a criminal broke into your house and made off with your television, stereo, camera, and the gold coins you hid under the mattress. Imagine the cops caught him speeding away. But instead of arresting him for stealing your goods, they simply issued him a ticket for speeding. (1060 views)

CONGRESS SET TO PASS LAW ELIMINATING LIABILITY FOR VACCINE INJURIES - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.(1062 views)

The Predators who rule the world - The robber barons of old ruled their world. Today’s robber barons are much more powerful than those earlier titans, and they appear to be all but unbeatable.(1014 views)

America's Iron Click: Empire of Denial - Thanks to history textbooks, Hollywood, television and politicians (Democrat and Republican), the US people are kept in ignorance of their imperial past. Each intervention is presented as an altruistic response to a crisis.(940 views)

October 25, 2005

Corruption-Lite and The Two Party System That Has Choked the Democracy out of this Country. - Now I know they are the minor leagues compared to the GOP, but they are both pigs at the trough of American corruption. It has never ceased to amaze me that we can have 31 flavors of ice cream in this country but only two coherent political philosophies. Everyone who fights for progressive causes knows the 2004 and 2000 elections were stolen. Similarly, we know that we are heading for another theft in 2006, and then 2008.(956 views)

The White House cabal - In President Bush's first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Will the French Indict Cheney? - Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets.(998 views)

Report: Texas Overpaid Miers in Land Sale - Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 - 10 times the land's worth - despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined...(1153 views)